Rec Week 2018: Angsty Wednesday

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We all love Steve and Tony, but sometimes they're just not very good at being happy, are they? (And sometimes we don't want them to be happy anyway.) There is just so much drama and uncertainty and both the happy and unhappy ending have to be earned - and let's be honest we like the sad and dark feelings that evokes in us. So, today is the day to rec all you favorite angsty fanworks!

Note: Please mark major warnings for your recs, and if you have time, let us know why you’re reccing it!

Rec Week 2018 Themes and Schedule

All New Monday, July 9th: Works newly posted any time after the end of the 2017 Reverse Big Bang (mid-June).
Artful Tuesday, July 10th: A rec day highlighting fanart specifically! Come and rec all the art.
Angsty Wednesday, July 11th: Bring on all the angst!
Fluffy Thursday: July 12th Rec your favourite warm fluff works.
Fix-It Friday, July 13th: All fix-its, all day.
Kiss-It-Better Saturday: July 14th: Hurt/Comfort of any kind.
Cap-IM Sunday, July 15th: Rec all your favorite works created for one of the Cap-IronMan challenges!

There will be different ways to participate:

• You can comment with your recs on the day on this post or in our livejournal community. (Anon commenting will allow anyone to participate, even if they don’t have an account.)


• Reply to the rec day’s Tumblr post with your recs.


• During rec week you can make a Tumblr post with your recommendations and tag it with #capimrecweek within the first five tags on the post. Please include the day’s theme somewhere in the body of the post. On the dedicated day we will reblog posts for the day’s theme on our community Tumblr and later include them in the masterlist.

If you have any questions, please let us know in the comments to the Dreamwidth post right here, send us an ask on Tumblr or email us at cap.im.events@gmail.com.

Don't forget we also have our themed fanwork recs going on right here in the Dreamwidth Community!

Comments

[laireshi]

And For You... (Can't Let You Destroy) by navaan (616, Major Character Death)
Summary: He's an AI now - not human. And Steve has betrayed them all. How is an Artificial Intelligence to cope when it still feels the betrayal.
Comment: I just want to say this fic is Not Okay and Navaan broke me and she's still not forgiven for it. By which I mean, GO READ IT. Bonus rec for hellogarbagetime's rec art for the fic which spoils it, but HOLY SHIT MY HEART.

Signals Between Two Satellites by nostalgicatsea (MCU)
Summary: He hadn't allowed himself to dream of this, of Tony returning to him. Not when he had lost so much. Not when dreaming of the impossible would destroy him.

But Tony was here, and for the first time since Thanos had wiped out half of the universe, Steve felt hope.
Comment: nostalgicatsea's prose is beautiful. This has all the pain of a post-IW scenario, but it's hopeful, too.

Give Up The Ghost by foldingcranes (616, Major Character Death)
Summary: Director Stark gets a late night visit.
Comment: The best kind of Director Stark angst that I can never get enough of! SO CREEPY, SO GOOD.

Art by 000momo000 (MCU)
Comment: This is beautiful and heartbreaking and just ARGH!!!

Art by nohaijiachi (616, Major Character Death)
Comment: Just click on it and cry as I've been doing for the past three years, since it was first posted.

Art by skyeedom (616)
Comment: So I love this piece for shallow reasons (TONY IN HIS UNDERSUIT) but also because it's deceptively fluffy . . . until you realise this is Hydra Cap. Uh huh. Take care, Tony.

[enkiii]

I haven’t seen that art before and ohok now I’m crying ;__; thank the recs

[felis]

Never In Time For A Dance (MCU, 970 words) and Chance at Love (MCU, 770 words) by Navaan
Summaries: Steve learns of it from the news. and Tony is dead. And Steve has to go on now in that knowledge, protecting Vision and the Infinity Stone.
Comment: For all your angsty and sad MCU!Steve needs. I really love Navaan's take on him.


Secrets and Surprises by Laireshi (616, 3072 words)
Summary: Tony's preparing for his and Steve's anniversary. The only issue? Steve realises that Tony's hiding something and, given their history, suspects it's something sinister.
Comment: Angst through well done misunderstandings and unintentional hurting each other? Favourite. And I just love how this uses their history.


Uhm ... everything by Sineala? Ha. I'll go for

All Time Low (616, 12060 words)
Summary: Tony's lost his company to Obadiah Stane. He's lost it all: his money, his friends, his Avengers team... and his sobriety. Drunk, homeless, Tony is living on the streets, and when he runs out of liquor money, he sells the only thing he has left: his body. And one day, he has the exact wrong customer.
Comment: Because it really doesn't get much angstier, does it.

and

This Mortal Part of Mine (616, 60255 words)
Summary: Steve hasn't seen Tony since he carried him, blackout drunk, out of the flames of a Bowery flophouse several months ago, and he honestly never expected to see Tony alive again. On his road trip across America, Steve puts out a call for the nearest Avenger -- and he's very surprised when Tony turns up in a brand-new Iron Man suit, ready for action. But their relationship, strained and tense, is about to get even worse. Their foe turns out to be a monster from another dimension, who hurts them in ways they could never have imagined, and the bond between them might not be strong enough to weather the aftermath.
Comment: Because I love that there is So Much Steve Angst in this one. Also, tentacles. Tentacles don't get recced enough.


String Theory (MCU, fanvid, constructed reality)
Summary: Wanda forebodes a catastrophe and changes Reality, separating Steve and Tony. Their past life and a new reality mix and bring them anguish and pain. But love conquers all and blah-blah-blah. And Wanda decides to return everything as it was.... or not, it all depends on your imagination.
Comment: I really like the story idea for this vid and the footage the vidder chose to show the "wrong" lives that Steve and Tony are leading, and how disturbed they are by the flashes of what they were in a different life.


Gasoline by Garrideb (616, fanvid)
Summary: A comics fanvid set during the run on Iron Man when Tony was the Director of SHIELD, had his Extremis powers, and was frequently hallucinating the ghosts of his dead friends.
Comment: The ultimate angsty Tony vid. So much going on.


If Only I Could TheMadMoro (616, fanvid)
Summary: Tony Stark's reaction to death of Captain America.
Comment: Perfect.


Watching You by Firenstone (MCU, fanvid, constructed reality)
Summary: Tony woke up at a strange place, couldn't remember anything. A man appeared in his dream told him to think. So he started to think about the last thing he remembered: he died for saving Steve. And now he's just a program watching Steve through cameras...
Comment: I adore this take on Extremis and AI!Tony and the presumed dead trope. Love the moment of revelation when Steve realizes who has been helping them in the shadows.


And finally, I have to include Ann2who's pre CA:CW Civil War AU No Lights (MCU, fanvid).
Comment: Worth it for the constructed prison scene alone, but I also love the way she constructs the established relationship just to blow it all to hell with the CW plot.

[enkiii]

W O W FANVIDS. I LOVE FANVIDS. I LOVE THESE FANVIDS.

[felis]

:-D

For some reason, just about every vid bookmark I have for this pairing is angsty? Kind of? There are one or two exceptions.

[enkiii]

bahaha yay angst :D I think most of the stevetony content i see tends to be more angsty than fluffy. says something about the fandom! (or about me;; that is usually the content I search for xD)

[(Anonymous)]

Oh Mrs. Beliver, you Pretty Weeper by Azkaabanter I’m Ao3 https://archiveofourown.org/works/15283833